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What minister of Christ, bent on preserving honor and conscience, could remain in charge of his church? In comparison with the Covenant, all earthly inducements were as rotten straw, in the judgment of those whose eyes took in the world of glory and rested on the Lord. Two hundred Covenanted ministers quietly accepted the penalty.
The last grave penalty of death was of various kinds, as the cross, the gibbet, the precipice, the bowl afflictions seldom in reserve for the freemen. As the principle of shame was a main instrument of the penal code of the Athenians, so they endeavoured to attain the same object by the sublimer motive of honour.
Indeed, nearly all the old writers agree in recognizing the existence of the faculty of fascination; and among the Romans it was so universally admitted, that in the "Decemvirales Tabulae" there was a law prohibiting the exercise of it under a capital penalty: "Ne pelliciunto alienas segeles, excantando, ne incantando; ne agrum defraudanto."
So the next petition is for pardon. Sin incurs debt. Forgiveness is the remission of penalty, but the penalty is not merely external punishment. The true penalty is separation from God, and His forgiveness is His loving on, undisturbed by sin.
It's no like Drumtochty; ye're setting an example, Milton, wi' yir composure. But a' mind ye took the doctor's meesure as sune as ye cam intae the pairish." It is the penalty of a cynic that he must have some relief for his secret grief, and Milton began to weary of life in Jamie's hands during those days.
That which you have done is done, and yours must be the penalty and the sorrow yours and mine yours and mine yours and mine." This, too, was a phantom, a Rima of the mind, one of the shapes the ever-changing black vapours of remorse and insanity would take; and all her mournful sentences were woven out of my own brain.
And so will you cowards of Illinois, he says, 'have to pay the penalty for sheddin' the blood of Joseph Smith, the best blood that has flowed since the Lord's Christ, he says. 'The wrath of God, he says, 'will abide upon you. The old gentleman was a powerful denouncer when he was in the spirit of it " "Come, come, Keaton, hurry, for God's sake get on!"
Wallingford," this person commenced "that I have a writ to arrest you, for a sum that will require very respectable bail no less than sixty thousand dollars." "Well done, my upright cousin," I muttered; "this is losing no time, certainly. I owe half that money, I admit, sir, if my farm only sold for five thousand dollars, as I hear, and I suppose I am arrested for the penalty of my bond.
Every one who has had any considerable experience in the management of boys will readily understand how different the effect of this measure will be from that of the other, while yet the penalty is in both cases precisely the same namely, the loss, for the boys, of five minutes of their play. The Little Runaway.
The man stolen might be past labor, and his support a burden, yet death was the penalty, though not a cent's worth of property value was taken. The penalty for stealing property was a mere property penalty. However large the amount stolen, the payment of double wiped out the score.
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